Rick O'Shea Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Broadcaster @rte/@rtegold. Picks #EasonMustReads. Patron @epilepsyireland. Board @fightingwordsni. "That guy who reads a lot", festival curator, quizzer.
Shame
Annie ErnauxRick O'SheaHappening - Annie Ernaux (translated by Tanya Leslie) To my eternal shame my first Annie Ernaux, but will not be my last. The story of how in 1963, as a 23-year-old student, she found herself pregnant and seeking an illegal abortion. (1/2) https://t.co/8gYJfje6Jx
Paperback, 1998
$12.95$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyRick O'SheaCormac McCarthy - The Passenger I can't explain this book to you, I just can't. Part thriller(?), part family story, all hugely memorable characters set in New Orleans in the 80s and flashing back to the main character's late sister and her encounters with imaginary characters.. https://t.co/IRZkJFa9FH
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyRick O'SheaAnd finally, for me, perhaps unsurprisingly... Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney: https://t.co/n6hVMjLMy6
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony DoerrRick O'SheaIt's time for the October books of the month over in the @ROSBookClub. Two absolute peaches in Bewilderment by Richard Powers and Anthony Doerr's Cloud Cuckoo Land. Come in, chat along with 37,500 other readers all over the world... https://www.facebook.com/groups/therickosheabookclub https://t.co/r2p69KiPVD
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea WulfRick O'SheaAnd the wildcard is the "maybe slightly niche but probably totally my sort of thing" Magnificent Rebels by @andrea_wulf. https://t.co/x2YeJByCvR
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Close to Home
Michael MageeRick O'Shea*** BOOK OF THE MONTH - JULY 2023 *** I have been remiss on having Rick O'Shea Book Club book of the month and we're going to get started again. @michaelmagee__'s debut novel Close To Home is the story of a young man who has come back to Belfast after college and is... 🧵 https://t.co/HDbsKFfaol
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wall
John LanchesterRick O'Shea@KitdeWaal Bewilderment by Richard Powers, The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi, Kim Stanley Robinson's The Ministry For The Future, @supersplurk's The Line, John Lanchester's The Wall, might even suggest Augustina Bazterrica's Tender Is The Flesh...
Hardcover, 2019
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie GarmusRick O'Shea*** RICK O'SHEA BOOK CLUB - BOOKS OF 2022 *** And so we have winners... As voted by members, the best Irish book of 2022 is Donal Ryan's The Queen Of Dirt Island and the best International book is Lessons in Chemistry by @BonnieGarmus. https://t.co/UXkbBljc0p
Hardcover, 2022
$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle ZevinRick O'SheaSo few days left, so many reviews to do. So. Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow A book I absolutely adored. Sam and Sadie meet as young kids in a hospital ward and then bump into each other in a train station near Harvard in college... (1/2) https://t.co/murexg42eo
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Demon Copperhead
Barbara KingsolverRick O'SheaI've also gone for Barbara Kingsolver's Demon Copperhead - a Dickens parallel story set in coal country in the 90s with poverty, family, and the arriving opioid crisis. Loved it. https://t.co/I77xAliWzK
Paperback, 2024
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book